Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 22

Den eh farruh, wuh bin de King, gen out wud say de one wuh kin fetch ter um de Alligatur yeye teet, an water from de Deer yeye, shill hab eh Darter.

Who acts: Den wud, one wuh kin, de · What happens: say, fetch, teet, shill · To what, where: de, ter um, hab · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den wud, one wuh kin, de), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wud	compound
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	1 Den	discourse
3	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	1 Den	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	6 bin	discourse
6	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	conj
7	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bin	flat
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	list
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gen	punct
10	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	1 Den	compound:prt
12	wud	wud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 say	obj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 kin	nummod
16	wuh	wuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kin	compound
17	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	nsubj
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	parataxis
19	ter	ter	X	_	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 teet	nsubj
22	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 teet	compound
23	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teet	compound
24	teet	teet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 water	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teet	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 de	case
29	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	nmod
30	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 yeye	compound
31	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 de	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shill	punct
33	shill	shill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fetch	conj
34	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shill	obj
35	eh	eh	INTJ	_	36 Darter	discourse
36	Darter	Darter	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hab	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Den wud	de		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=Topic
2	fetch	present	one wuh kin	ter um		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
3	teet		de		a water from de and Deer yeye conj	tree rules
4	shill	infinitive	one wuh kin not said here	hab		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 22